This page presents the geographical name data for Beaumont Island in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division.

Description (see definition): Low, rocky island in Neny Bay, about 0.4 mi from the mouth of Centurion Glacier, off the W coast of Graham Land. The island was presumably first sighted in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), and was roughly charted by them and by the U.S. Antarctic Service (USAS), 1939-41. It was surveyed in 1946 by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), who named it for the Port of Beaumont, Texas, ship of the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) under Ronne, which wintered nearby in Back Bay during 1947.

NOTE: The information regarding Beaumont Island in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Beaumont Island should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

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